If you’re moving from mechanical HDDs, the Agility 3 is without doubt a recommended purchase if you’re looking to save nearly a hundred dollars off the price of the fastest SATA3 drives. If you’re simply upgrading from SATA2 SandForce drives, the difference will not be as awe-inspiring, but still makes a difference in 24/7 operations. No other 240 GB drive comes close in price without dropping speeds nearly in half.
As another competition comes to a close, we have teamed up with another company to offer something back to our valued readers of eTeknix. If this is the first giveaway you are entering, to let you know we host a new giveaway EVERY week so be sure to keep up-to-date with eTeknix and what’s going on. To kick start Giveaway #3 we are teaming up with leading graphics card manufacturer Sapphire to give two lucky people from Europe the chance to win a fantastic Sapphire HD 6870 FleX Edition 1GB graphics card worth ?175 each. Also as a further incentive, Sapphire are generously including a Dirt 3 coupon with each of the prizes! All prizes are provided by Sapphire and more information on this card can be found directly on the?Sapphire official website.
While everyone waits with baited breath for AMD to release their new range of
processors, we felt it was a good time to have a look at another Intel Z68
motherboard – the Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3. Gigabyte have earned a good reputation in
the industry over the years for producing quality motherboards, alongside MSI and
Asus.
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We all remember the 5000 series cards from AMD and how much of an impact they
had to the market by offering great performance at a fantastic price point. Shortly
after this era, the 6000 series arrived on the scene offering better tessellation
and technical effects for that similar pricing structure. As a lot of brands completely phased out the 5000 series cards, Sapphire were keen to push more performance out of them and still offer that fantastic bang for buck that the 5000 series gave initially but this time with even better pricing. Today sees us taking a look at the 5850 Xtreme from Sapphire in a look to see how it compares against some of the beefiest, most powerful, cutting edge cards of today, hoping that the 5000 series still has some life left in it and can still pack a punch.
